Benjamin Miall Yates’ Electri-City tables use recycled computer hardware and LEDs to form beautiful illuminated coffee tables. I try to reuse as much of the wasted components as possible—screws taken out of computers are sometimes used to secure the city’s buildings down to the ‘ground’, and I use the plastic or metal outer casings in […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Heritage Museums & Gardens invites artists, designers and engineers to participate in an outdoor sculpture exhibit of solar, wind, water, and human-powered kinetic sculpture for the 2013 season. The juried show will be sited throughout our 100-acre grounds of open vistas, meandering paths, a neighboring pond, secluded spaces, and flowering gardens. Works may be offered […]
There are over 500 makers of all stripes preparing a wide variety of projects for Maker Faire New York, taking place next weekend, September 29 and 30, at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. From engineers to crafters, roboticists to recyclers, what all these makers have in common is a deep passion for […]
Hands down, Halloween is my favorite holiday, and Instructables user Tatterhood has got me all inspired to get started on my costume with her jaw-dropping Ryuk costume tutorial. (Ryuk is a character in the anime series Death Note.) The mask and feather shoulder pieces are rad, guaranteed to scare the living daylights out of both […]
The thing this first-time Burner found the most overwhelming (in the good way) was the presence of the maker spirit everywhere I looked. Practically everything that makes its way to Black Rock City is made by hand, and most of it is made just because nothing quite like it has ever been made before.
Nottingham Hackspace member Jake Howe built this beautiful beetle from an old violin, with a little laser cutter action mixed in! Check out Jake’s instructable showing how to do it.
